Automobile agricultural machine.



'D. H. 'HATLEE.

AUTOMOBILE AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.

APPLIOATIQN I 'ILE D MAY 16, 1910.

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- vertical section STAES I DAVID HENRY HATLEE, or CLIFTON PARK, NEW YORKfASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH AUTOMOBILE AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1911.

Application filed May 16,1910. Serial No. 561,634;

Be it known that I, DAVID. H. HATLEE, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Clifton Park, in the county of Saratoga and State of New new and useful Improvements in Automobile Agricultural Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My inventlonrelates to agricultural ma,

chines of the class in which themachine is propelled by a motor or engine mounted on the machine, which operates grain or grass cutting or other mechanism carried by the machine, and the object of my invention is to simplify machinesof this class, render them more eflicient, more durable and more.

easily managed.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my improvements embodied in amowing machine, but they may be included in machines of different kinds. Figure 1 is a top plan view of so much of the motor driven mowing machine as is "necessary to illustrate my improvements. ig. 2 shows a vertical section thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail View in on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 shows how a plow may be substituted for the cutting mechanism."

The main frame A of the machine is pref erably supported on three wheels, B, C, and

D. Themain or driving wheel B is rigidly- U secured to an axle E having sleeve bearings e e on the top of the frame; The wheel C on the opposite side of the machine is free to turn on a stud axle g projecting from an arm 9 rigid with a lever H pivotally connected with a bracket-or hanger Iextending downwardly from the main frame. By means of the'lever H the machine may be leveled, tilted, or raised and lowered so as to accommodate hills, inclines or other irregularities in the field. The wheel D, which is the guiding or pilot wheel, is mounted in a bifurcated frame K pivotallyconnected at c to the front end of the main frame. This frame is formed. with'a segment of teeth Z, meshing with a beveled pinion Z. on the lower end of the shaft L mounted to turn in a sleeve bearing Z on the main frame and" extending upwardly and rearwardly toward the seat M, its upper rear end being provided with a handwheel N. By operating the hand wheel the pilot wheel may-be adjusted to properly guide the machine.-

York, have invented certainj The finger bar 0 of the mowing machine is hinged at 0 to a shoe 0 pivoted at 0 to the lower front end of a frame P, one arm 9 of which is pivoted to the bracket or hanger I while the'other arm 79 is pivotally con nected with. a bracket or hanger I on the opposite side of the machine. freely hinged to the frame A and may be raised or loweredby a lever Q, pivoted to the main frame and having an arm q 0011- n'ected to the frame P by a chain 91. The lever Q, is provided with latch mechanism The frame P is I Q, cooperating with a'toothed segment Q? I ,by which means the frame P may be held in an'elevated position or quickly lowered.

An engine or motor R of any suitable kind may be mounted on the main frame in the manner indicated, and means of the rod 7' with a crank arm r projecting from a worm shaft S-mounted in bearings in brackets s projecting upwardly from the rear part of the main frame. The worm s on the shaftgears with a wheel 8 on a shaft carrying a bevel gear T meshing with the bevel spur wheels U, U mounted to turn loosely on the main shaft E but at all times gearing with the wheel T.

V indicates a clutch block mounted to slide on the shaft E and provided on opposite sides with clutch teeth 1; adapted to engage corresponding-teeth e on' the wheels ranged bell crank lever pivoted to the main frame and connected with an operating lever W by means of which. either of the wheels U, U may be engaged by the clutch. By the mechanism described the main shaft E may be operated by the motoron engine to turn in either direction to drive the machine either forward or backward. The worm shaft carries a band pulley and fly wheel When desired, the shaft E may be entirely disconnected from the engine and the pulley may he belted to any stationary machine which it is desired to operate.

The cutter bar Y is -connected to a rod with a bell crank lever y pivoted to the lower end of the frame P'and connected by a rod Z to a bell crank lever Z pivoted at z .to the bracket or hanger I and connected at its rear end by a link a with the piston rod r of the engine. By this mechanism the cutter bar may be operated .U. lndicatesa horizontally ar it is connected by from the engine as the machine advances,

and the connections are such that the frame P, carrying the cutting mechanism, may be raised and loweredwithout interfering with thegconnections between the engine and the cutters.

B indicates a lever which-may be operated to tilt the cutter bar. Thisis common in this class of'rnachines If desired, the cutting mechanism may be removed and a plow A substituted, in which case the motor driving mechanism would of course be thrown out of operation by disconnecting some ofthe operative parts.

Itwill be observed that theengine or motor is connected first with a worm shaft and that motion is communicated from this shaft by means .of a worm wheel to bevel pinions that are adapted to be connected with the main driving shaft. In thiswa-y a rapid motion is given to the worm shaft but a much slower motion is given to the bevel wheels which are constantly rotating.- \Vear on the bevel wheels is thus reducedand by this arrangement of -gearing also great power is imparted "to the driving shaft, sufficient to propel the machine. The gearing is very-compact and. is extremely light-,whieh of course is veryfdcsirable in machines of this class.

I claim as my invention:

1. An automobile agr cultural -machine, comprlsmg a mam frame, a main or driving axle mountedin. bearings therein and proadjustable supporting wheel at vided with a driving wheel, an engine or motor mounted on the main frame, a worm shaft driven thereby, connections between said worm shaft and the. driving axle, an

of one side of the main frame,a'pi1ot wheel at the front of the machine, a pivoted frame in which itis'mounted, a shaft operatively connected with this frame, a hand wheel for said frame, a finger bar hinged to the the rear end a operating the shaft, a frame arranged below comprising a main frame, a main or driving axle mounted in bearings therein and provlded with adrivmg wheel, an engine or motor mounted on the main frame, a worm shaft driven thereby, connections between said worm shaftandthedrivingaxle, brackets or hangers attached to and extending downwardly from the'main frame, an' adj ustable supporting wheel pivotally connected with one of said hangers, a frame locatedbelow the main frame and pivotally connect- I ed with bothof saidhangers', means for raising and lowering th1s frame, a shoe plvthe lower front end of shoe, a cutting blade carried by said finger bar, a bell-crank lever mounted on the. lower end otally connected to of the hinged frame, connections supported by said frame and which may be raised and lowered therewith between said bellcrank lever and the engine, a pilot wheel,

and means for steering it.

In testimony,'whereof, I- haVe hereunto subscribed my name.

DAVID /Vitnessesf J AMES H. BEMs,

KATHERINE G. 'MONAHAN.

HENRY HATLEEY 

